Applied Microperformativity
Live Arts for a Radical Socio-Economic Turn
12-19 December 2018
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About
Applied Microperformativity
Live Arts for a Radical Socio-Economic Turn
Curated by Lucie Strecker, Klaus Spiess and Jens Hauser
Symposium / Interventions / Exhibition
How does the agency of genes or cell fragments, proteins or enzymes, bacteria and fungi relate to macroscopic dynamics of power in contemporary biopolitics? How can performance art and discourse inform these processes? What are the artistic methods to engage critically with technologies that exploit life on a microscopic and molecular level to merge bio- and digital media for extensive valuation?
‘Applied Microperformativity: Live Arts for a Radical Socio-Economic Turn’ will showcase international approaches to challenging causal relations inherent in the capitalist economy by considering a specifically post-anthropocentric notion of performativity – a notion that includes the invaluable, the incalculable, the
un-encodable and irredeemably opaque.
It invites the discovery of microperformativity not solely as a tool to describe the scales of space and time, where life is transformed to code and furthermore into a tradable commodity, but to encounter value as a critical experience, as a force rather than a norm.
Symposium
12. - 14. December 2018
12. December 2018
OPENING
7:00pm – 10:00pm: The Banquet
Welcome: Gerald Bast
Introduction: Lucie Strecker, Jens Hauser, Klaus Spiess and Ann Liv Young
Hox Zodiac (Victoria Vesna in cooperation with Monica C. LoCascio and Max Hersey)
Reflux Coïtus (Elisabeth Bakambamba Tambwe)
The America Project (Paul Vanouse)
DAY 1
11:00am – 12:30pm: The Trail
Microbial Keywording (Klaus Spiess, Lucie Strecker), 20 min
Microperformativity in Experimentation (Hans-Jörg Rheinberger), 40 min
Microbial Keywording Step 1, 10 min
1pm – 2:30pm: The Gift
Stillleben (Irini Athanassakis, Krõõt Juurak, Dana Papachristou ) 40 min
Symbiotic Cultures (David Berry) 20 min
Microbial Keywording Step 2, 10 min
5:00pm – 6:30pm: The Flow
The Economy of Transspecies Time
(Video: Klaus Spiess, Lucie Strecker, Performance: Daniel Aschwanden, Roman Widholm), 40 min
Wastelands: Microbial Time (Tagny Duff), 40 min
Microbial Keywording Step 3, 10 min
7pm – 9pm: The Border
Ghost Economies: What the dead can teach us about life at the end of capitalism (Max Haiven) 40 min
Throwing up Ghosts without Borders (Max Haiven, Cassie Thronton) 1:20 min
Durational Performance: Ann Liv Young, Oleg Soulimenko
DAY 2
11am – 12:30pm: The Phase
Designing the Molecular Self: New Media Ecologies and the
Commodification of Life in a Bioscience-based Economy (Ingeborg Reichle), 40 min
Neuron - Statistic - Machine - Life: Oikos, Performance and the Sensory Order (Chris Salter), 40 min
Microbial Keywording Step 4, 10 min
1pm – 2:30pm: The Labor
Immaterial Labor of Pets (Krõõt Juurak/ Alex Bailey), 30 min
On Labor (Paul Vanouse in cooperation with Guadalupe Aldrete and Zsusza Rozsavolgyi), 45 min
Microbial Keywording Step 5, 10 min
5:00pm – 6:30pm: The Cannibal
The Prometheus Protocols – audio play (Thomas Feuerstein/ Szely/ Nehle Dick/ Jim Lippy), 50 min
The Economy of Cannibalism (Roland Rauschmeier, Alex Bailey, Klaus Spiess), 30 min
Microbial Keywording Step 6, 10 min
7pm – 9pm: The Medium
Microperformativity \ / Biomediality (Jens Hauser), 30 min
Multiorgasmic Politics (Eben Kirksey), 45 min
From Microbial Keywording to Living Currency (Klaus Spiess, Lucie Strecker) 30 min
Durational Performance: Ann Liv Young, Oleg Soulimenko
13. December 2018
14. December 2018
Extended
15. - 19. December 2018
15. December 2018
5pm: The Pit
Sylvia Eckermann, Gerald Nestler & Guests, 60 min
Shenzhen Molecular Speed. Troubled Markets for Gene Editing Tools?
(Leonardo Laser Talk, 90 min)
Contributors: S. Eben Kirksey, Christa Schleper, Jens Hauser, Markus
Schmidt, Paul Vanouse
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7pm: The Host
Testotoxic - Intervention into Masculinity
(SelfSightSeeing Company), open end
5pm: The Flourish
A critical—performative farewell tour to relive excerpts of the symposium, posing new entanglements in juxtaposition to the points of view and artworks of:
"Space occupation" Paula Flores
"Hepatoscopy | Face Value" Laura Stoll
"Activity" Marko Markovic
"Between Moths and Humans" Marthin Rozo
"Breath" Mauricio Suarez
"Embrecord" Monica C. LoCascio
"inevitables" Rafael Lippuner –
"Oestrogen" Zsusza Rozsavolgyi
18. December 2018
19. December 2018
Exhibition
12. - 19. December 2018
Oktoplasma/Prometheus Delivered (Thomas Feuerstein)
The America Project (Paul Vanouse)
Labor (Paul Vanouse)
BREAST III (The Derivative) (Irini Athanassakis)
Milk (Irini Athanassakis)
Hare’s Blood + (Klaus Spiess, Lucie Strecker)
Mykovaluta/Wirkung (Klaus Spiess, Lucie Strecker)
From Microbial Keywording to Living Currency (Klaus Spiess, Lucie Strecker)
Gallery
Contributors
Dana Papachristou (GR)
Elisabeth Bakambamba Tambwe (RDC/FR)
Roman Widholm (AT)
Exhibition Design: Lucie Strecker, Johannes Maile, Mauricio Suarez
Media Design: Joseph Knierzinger, Jürgen Ropp, Peter Koger
Production Management: Johannes Maile
Supervision Molecular- and Cell Biology: Mark Rinnnerthaler, Reinhard Nestelbacher
Text and dramaturgical consulting: KT Zakravsky
Biotechnological Support and Performance: Johannes Seiwerth
Graphic Design/Logo: Monica LoCasio
Curatorial assistant: Guadalupe Aldrete
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